[FlyingMongoose]

you know steam? and all the steam windows that you can still see while playing games by pressing escape? like friends, and how the options windows and stuff like that has formatting that looks like Steam...well that's VGUI2, original VGUI is the menus while in game. Unless I'm mistaken. But I remember when the HLServer started to look steamlike before steam was even out as a beta they said it had a VGUI2 interface but everyone still runs major servers on console mode, VGUI2 takes up too much sys resources.

[Johnny got his gun]

Originally Posted by devicenull Ok.. /* Beginning of pvPrivate manipulation. */ /* Integers */ native get_private_i(index,Offset) native set_private_i(index,Offset,Value) /* Floats */ native Float:get_private_f(index,Offset) native set_private_f(index,Offset,Float:Value) native register_impulse(impulse, svCommand[],extra=0) native takedamage (idVictim,idInflictor,idAttacker,Float:damage ,damagetype); native get_class(index); Look at the stuff Ns2AMX has.. the *_private stuff would really be useful register_impulse works the same as register_concmd - except it catches impulses Takedamage does the specifed amount of damage - useful for NS because "kill" is blocked in some cases - meaning slay doesnt work get_class returns a number representing the players class

The privates are already in engine since first release.

[CheesyPeteza]

I wanted to give you some stocks and constants that you could use if you wished, but I've been really busy and I haven't got round to finishing it. So I'm just going to post what I've got now. I'll keep updating it if I get time.

You may want to turn most of the stocks into natives as they pretty much all use private data, which would mean everytime a new version of NS was released everyone would have to recompile their plugins with the new offsets.

We need a few natives that are in ns2amx.

register_impulse This is essential really. Most of the selections in NS are done through a special menu. Each button on the menu corresponds to a different impulse number. For example "impulse 5" = go to readyroom. There is over a 100 different impulses. We also need to be able to block the impulses. This was done in ns2amx by setting the players pev impulse to 0 then returning PLUGIN_HANDLED.

play_event By event I don't mean a message, I mean a scripted sequence. They are described in a doc in the Full HLSDK. Here I have uploaded it to my webspace. This would be useful for other mods too. If you have time register_playevent native would be good too. (you could add knock back to weapons for example, or simply change the effect).

forward changelevel Unlike DOD and CS, NS does not have the SVC_INTERMISSION message sent just before the map changes. Therefore there is no easy way to detect when the map is about to change. Which makes nextmap/mapchooser really hard to make properly. This forward is in ns2amx and it is brilliant, I wish we had it for CS too. You no longer have to faff about with mp_chattime in the nextmap plugin. return PLUGIN_HANDLED should block the changelevel.

I don't know if the forward pfn_touch allows this, but we need it to be blocked by returning PLUGIN_HANDLED. In NS you choose teams by walking into a brush entity, so if you want to be able to write any sort of plugin to configure teams or spectators then you need to be able to block them touching certain entities. This would also be great for weapon restrictions in other mods like CS.

When I think of more stuff I will add it.

[ThorW634]

very nice cheesy

[QwertyAccess]

you really do love that forward chagnelevel

[CheesyPeteza]

Its the main reason I'm not using AMXModX yet.

I think I'm just going to wait for Mahnsawce to release an AMXModX version of ns2amx actually. I can't be arsed having to beg people to add new natives. I'll just use the engine natives where possible and use ns2amx where it is the only solution.

[QwertyAccess]

is he even going to convert it to amx mod x though.

[CheesyPeteza]

Yes, within the next few days hopefully.

[devicenull]

It already works with AmxX, I've used it for a few plugins.. I never released any, because I figured taht most people wouldn't want to use it unless it was perfectly stable

[QwertyAccess]

ns2amx worked for a while for me but caused my server to crash constantly. and i had some problems with takedamage